Scott McElhaney

Scott's first novel, Mommy's Choice, was originally published in paperback under the pseudonym Scott Curtis. In under a year on the bookshelves, that novel won the Christian Choice Book Award for romantic suspense. When Scott moved to a different publisher and started making his novels available to Kindle readers, he returned to his real name and reduced the prices to the absolute minimum allowed by Amazon.

Scott McElhaney currently resides in Ohio with his wife of 30 years and two sons. He's a Desert Shield veteran of the US Navy, having served on both the USS South Carolina CGN-37 and the USS Saratoga CV-60 in the Red Sea at a time when Hussein was trying to take a backward route through the Red Sea to avoid the embargo of his ships in the Persian Gulf. He also served in the Caribbean on the USS South Carolina during the 1990 Law Enforcement Ops outside of Columbia, blockading the entry of drugs into the US, which earned him the CG Special Operations Service Medal typically only awarded to members of the Coast Guard. Although his books didn't become available to Kindle readers until December 2011, over a half-million digital copies have been purchased by mid-2025 and he still maintains a position in the top 100 worldwide in the "Sci-fi Space Opera" category.